Well family, this has been a crazy time and I miss seeing all of you. As part fo a course I am working with the COVID-19 data and so I thought I would share some of what I have been doing with all of you as it might be interesting. All of this is based on data available up to 9/26 that has been aggregated and made public by Johns Hopkins University. It is the same data ( and soem of the same coding) you see in graphics froma lto of major news sources (confession: I still like working with fish nerd data more, even if it is less timely! But this is cool too).

To start with, I generated maps of the deaths and cases reported so far in the world and the United States:

I thought you all might be inteested to see what things look like case wise in the states we are living in as well. The following three plots are interactive in that if you scroll your mouse over the counties you will be able to see the total number of cases in that county! I put marks where people live if you are not used to looking at county lines.

First, Connecticut:

Next, New York:

North Carolina:

Lastly, Massachusetts:

One thing I have found interesting in the news is a relative lack of the coverage of mortality rate is in the country, and how that might vary by region. So here is a map similar to the US cases by county, but as % mortality of infections.